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Nine years ago Nathan M. Pusey came to Harvard from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, to become President of an enormous institution built on layer after layer of sedimented traditions. A slow and delicate play of subterranean forces had brought it to its current stature, a vast and complex machinery that it would be foolish to meddle with too deeply. The University might change, but it would have to change more through a process of natural evolution than through administrative decisions initiating and guiding change...
...number two spot, Vic Niederhoffer had more trouble with Brown's Nathan Chace, but a strong serve and good reflexes gave Niederhoffer the 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, victory. Frank Ripley's hard serve (maybe the strongest on the team) was enough to beat Bruin Victor Field in the number three match...
Brown will face the varsity without the benefit of a spring training trip under its belt, but returning lettermen Peyton Howard and Nathan Chace could give Sullivan and Niederhoffer tough matches. Howard was a finalist in the Easterns...
...court of Brennan, Nathan L. Jacobs of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and Wade A. McCree, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan, ruled in favor of Edward C. Pinkus and M. Laurence Popofsky, counsel for Dade County, but deferred judgement on the merits of the case itself...
...Maria Italiano is now Anne Bancroft. Anglicizing their names, Anthony Benedetto became Tony Bennett and Giovanni de Simone became Johnny Desmond. Among Jews, Izzy Itskowitz probably needed to sandpaper that a bit; yet he stayed with a Jewish name: Eddie Cantor. But most-from Jerry Levitch (Jerry Lewis) to Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns), Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson), Pauline Levy (Paulette Goddard), Rosetta Jacobs (Piper Laurie), and Melvin Hesselberg (Melvyn Douglas)-have preferred the Anglo-Saxon angle...